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Comments for "hinting on xgridfit/fontforge - help needed"enxgridfit is by no meanshttp://typophile.com/node/71003#comment-415053
<p>xgridfit is by no means required to do hinting in FontForge, it is designed as an xml-based higher level language replacement of the assembly-like TrueType instructions, and that is what it is all about. It works be generating a FontForge script that will do the actual instructions, apart from that it has no direct relation to FontForge.</p>
<p>FontForge has built-in support for Type1 hinting and TrueType instructions, and autohinting as well, check the documentation for more details, <a href="http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/realindex.html#Hints" title="http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/realindex.html#Hints">http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/realindex.html#Hints</a>.</p>
Wed, 09 Jun 2010 07:29:21 +0000Khaled Hosnycomment 415053 at http://typophile.comMe too.
I've found thathttp://typophile.com/node/71003#comment-415016
<p>Me too.</p>
<p>I've found that reading MS' and Apple's tutorials on TrueType hinting are very helpful to understand what all the gibberish means … while the xgridfit documentation isn't very well structured, to say the least.</p>
<p>I now understand how it works, but I still haven't found a way to make the XML coding efficient.*<br />
I have to admit I've given up and asked the guys at MS to send me a copy of VTT.</p>
<p>* to be frank, XML is the most time-consuming format I can imagine for this process. It shouldn't take too long to implement a visual frontend for the Fontforge GUI ...</p>
Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:09:30 +0000SebastianKcomment 415016 at http://typophile.com